Fedora 40 Workstation with Plasma desktop - Chrome has no sound

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I’m running Fedora 40 workstation w/Nvidia graphics and KDE Plasma. I recently stopped using Firefox because of performance issues and switched to Google Chrome. The problem is Google Chrome has no sound. I can play the identical youTube video on Firefox with sound, Amarok has sound, settings will test sound OK. I need help figuring out how to get Chrome setup to have sound.

My system configuration is:

Sun Feb 09 10:56:51[root@odyssey: ~]
SU: # inxi -Fzx
System:
  Kernel: 6.12.11-100.fc40.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 14.2.1
  Console: pty pts/4 Distro: Fedora Linux 40 (Workstation Edition)
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING v: Rev X.0x
    serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 5013 date: 03/18/2024
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse
    charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: discharging
  Device-2: hidpp_battery_1 model: Logitech Wireless Keyboard K540/K545
    charge: 100% (should be ignored) status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: 16-core model: AMD Ryzen 9 3950X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2
    rev: 0 cache: L1: 1024 KiB L2: 8 MiB L3: 64 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1750 min/max: 550/4762 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1750
    2: 1750 3: 1750 4: 1750 5: 1750 6: 1750 7: 1750 8: 1750 9: 1750 10: 1750
    11: 1750 12: 1750 13: 1750 14: 1750 15: 1750 16: 1750 17: 1750 18: 1750
    19: 1750 20: 1750 21: 1750 22: 1750 23: 1750 24: 1750 25: 1750 26: 1750
    27: 1750 28: 1750 29: 1750 30: 1750 31: 1750 32: 1750 bogomips: 223592
  Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 [GeForce GTX 1650] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
    v: 565.77 arch: Turing bus-ID: 0a:00.0
  Display: server: X.Org v: 24.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4 driver: X:
    loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa
    gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 3840x2160~30Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast platforms:
    active: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: wayland,device-1
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 565.77
    glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2
  API: Vulkan v: 1.3.296 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib devices: 2
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
    de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
    wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
  Device-1: NVIDIA TU106 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0a:00.1
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Starship/Matisse HD Audio
    vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0c:00.4
  API: ALSA v: k6.12.11-100.fc40.x86_64 status: kernel-api
  Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.9 status: n/a (root, process)
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel bus-ID: 04:00.0
  IF: wlp4s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel
    port: e000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
  IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-3: Intel I211 Gigabit Network vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igb v: kernel
    port: d000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
  IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: virbr0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel AX200 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB bus-ID: 1-6:3
  Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
    lmp-v: 11
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 22.74 TiB used: 1.54 TiB (6.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Corsair model: Force MP600 size: 931.51 GiB
    temp: 40.9 C
  ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 size: 3.64 TiB
    temp: 31 C
  ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST4000DM004-2CV104 size: 3.64 TiB
    temp: 28 C
  ID-4: /dev/sdc vendor: Seagate model: Expansion SW size: 7.28 TiB
    type: USB
  ID-5: /dev/sdd vendor: Seagate model: Expansion SW size: 7.28 TiB
    type: USB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 97.87 GiB used: 63.02 GiB (64.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
  ID-2: /boot size: 769.8 MiB used: 393.7 MiB (51.1%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 249.7 MiB used: 19 MiB (7.6%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
  ID-4: /home size: 1.97 TiB used: 1.3 TiB (66.2%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) dev: /dev/zram0
  ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 50 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/nvme0n1p4
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 30.0 C mobo: 33.0 C
  Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 1272 fan-2: 516 fan-3: 0 fan-4: 0 fan-5: 0
    fan-6: 0
Info:
  Memory: total: 32 GiB available: 31.24 GiB used: 7.13 GiB (22.8%)
  Processes: 632 Uptime: 1h 52m Init: systemd target: graphical (5)
  Packages: 23 note: see --rpm Compilers: clang: 18.1.8 gcc: 14.2.1
    Shell: Bash v: 5.2.26 inxi: 3.3.37
Sun Feb 09 12:48:20[root@odyssey: ~]
SU: #
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Did you ever fix this?

I’m asking same question in Sound Broken in Chrome, Fedora 40 + Version 134.0.6998.165

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The answer is NO! Shortly after the original post I switched back to firefox and hadn’t tried Chrome since until today. Still the same problem. My configuration is the same except now on kernel 6.13.7-100.fc40.x86_64 and various other package updates. My original problem with Firefox was it randomly black out my screen for varing amounts of time so basically I was dead in the water until the screen came back.. I never found a solution to Firefox issue but it has improved some. It still blacks out the screen randomly but the duration seems to be less.